My practicum has gotten very busy and interesting these last few weeks I have started vigorously working in the group setting with the clients and even making some decisions on clients transitioning into different levels of care. Working with women really has help me to acquire patients, empathy, and understanding. Most of these women have gone through very traumatic experiences in their past and they bring those issues behaviors they developed to cop into Group . Therefore learning group structure and norms have been really helpful and very important. According to Tuckman’s theory he articulated four stages of group development, which he labeled forming, storming, norming, and performing(Delucia-Waack, 2004). Furthermore my special project
